{"id":92927,"date":"2023-05-18T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92927"},"modified":"2023-05-18T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:14:06","slug":"92927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92927","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I like how they add \u201cthe courts 6-3 conservative majority\u201d part in there to remind everyone that “Oh it\u2019s the conservatives fault we can\u2019t pass gun control”.<\/em><\/p>\n

[Nevada Governor] Lombardo vetoes three Democrat-backed gun control bills<\/a><\/p>\n

Ahead of a press conference from advocates aimed at pressuring Gov. Joe Lombardo to sign a\u00a0trio of Democrat-proposed gun control measures<\/a>, the Republican governor vetoed the three bills.<\/p>\n

Lombardo\u2019s action marks the first veto of the session and arrives after he pledged on his\u00a0campaign website<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cveto any legislation\u201d that would take away the \u201cright to build a firearm for personal use.\u201d At that time, Lombardo also said he \u201csupports the right of all law-abiding citizens to own a firearm if they so choose.\u201d Republican lawmakers \u2014 who voted en masse against the three proposals \u2014 have been unwilling to support such policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not support legislation that infringes on the constitutional rights of Nevadans,\u201d Lombardo said in a press release Wednesday. \u201cAs I stated in my letters, much of the legislation I vetoed today is in direct conflict with legal precedent and established constitutional protections. Therefore, I cannot support them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first,\u00a0SB171<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. Dallas Harris (D-Las Vegas), would have prevented a gun purchase from anyone convicted of a hate crime in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

Separately,\u00a0AB354<\/a>, sponsored by Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas), would have criminalized bringing a gun within 100 feet of an election site, while\u00a0AB355<\/a>, also sponsored by Jauregui, would have raised the legal age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles and shotguns to 21, as well as aimed to close a legal loophole in the state\u2019s 2021 attempt to ban so-called \u201cghost guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to\u00a0The Nevada Independent<\/em>, Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas) said she \u201cdesperately\u201d wishes the governor would put the safety of Nevadans over partisan politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter his time consoling the families of the 1 October massacre, I expected the governor to have the basic empathy to realize his responsibility to prevent future mass shootings and gun violence tragedies,\u201d Jauregui said in a text message. \u201cI never want a Nevadan to experience the trauma that I and so many have endured.\u201d<\/p>\n

She vowed to continue to work on gun violence prevention measures during her time in office.<\/p>\n

The three bills passed through the Legislature on party-line votes.<\/p>\n

In a press conference held immediately after the governor\u2019s office announced the vetoes, legislative Democrats and gun control advocates pilloried the move as \u201cshameful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sent over three commonsense options, bills, by the way, that Republicans are supporting in other states across this country today,\u201d Harris said. \u201cIf this is how he wants to run his office, if these are the first bills he wants to veto, then I say game on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though she did not clarify what other states she meant in her remarks, Republican lawmakers in Texas\u00a0moved to advance a bill<\/a>\u00a0raising the age limit to purchase certain assault-style weapons through an initial committee earlier this month, following a spate of shooting violence this spring.<\/p>\n

However, in legal citations included in the three veto messages sent to lawmakers Wednesday, Lombardo leaned heavily on the potential for two of the measures \u2014 AB354 and AB355 \u2014 to falter under relatively new Supreme Court precedent established within the last two years.<\/p>\n

In both instances, the governor\u2019s office cited\u00a0New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen<\/em><\/a>, a 2021 case in which the court\u2019s 6-3 conservative majority ruled that state-level gun control legislation could only be deemed constitutional if there was a historic precedent for such laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs such, were this bill to become law, it is unlikely it would pass constitutional muster,\u201d Lombardo\u2019s veto message on AB355 said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like how they add \u201cthe courts 6-3 conservative majority\u201d part in there to remind everyone that “Oh it\u2019s the conservatives fault we can\u2019t pass gun control”. [Nevada Governor] Lombardo vetoes three Democrat-backed gun control bills Ahead of a press conference from advocates aimed at pressuring Gov. Joe Lombardo to sign a\u00a0trio of Democrat-proposed gun … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92930,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92927\/revisions\/92930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}